Brown, Benoni, 1719 -

Benoni Brown was the son of Benoni Brown and Elizabeth Arnold.  In 1747, he became the husband of Mable Porter of Middletown.  In 1754, he, with others of the Third Society of Middletown, petitioned the town for an access highway across Wangunk Meadow.  The following year Ebenezer White charged Brown for 36 feet of board to build coffins for Tom Cushoy, his wife, and Jo Simon.  Doris Sherrow, “Who Were the Wangunk?,” Portland, On the Move, November 1999.  Lucius Barnes Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut  (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1977), 92.